white Christmas en · NOUN
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A Christmas Day or Christmas Eve in which there is snowfall or ground covered with snow.
At Environment Canada, senior climatologist David Phillips′ standard for a white Christmas calls for at least two centimeters of snow on the ground at 7 a.m. . . . “In England, if a weather guy sees a snowflake, they call it a white Christmas.”
2008 December 18, David Bruser, “Thanks to more storms, Christmas may be white”, in Toronto Star, page A2:“It′s like frozen thistle-down!” she cried. “I hope it will snow all day and all night until everything is covered. I never saw a white Christmas.”
1905, Annie Fellows Johnston, chapter 8, in The Little Colonel′s Christmas Vacation:In New York City 10,000 men struggled to clear away the heavy snow which promised New Yorkers their first white Christmas in 15 years,[…].
1945 December 31, “The Big Snow”, in Life, page 23:
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| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| white Christmases | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
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Translations (9)
pt Natal branco (a Christmas Day or Eve with snow) · fr Noël blanc (a Christmas Day or Eve with snow) · nl witte kerst (a Christmas Day or Eve with snow) · fi valkea joulu (a Christmas Day or Eve with snow) · ko 화이트 크리스마스 (a Christmas Day or Eve with snow) · ja ホワイトクリスマス (a Christmas Day or Eve with snow) · sv vit jul (a Christmas Day or Eve with snow) · fi valkoinen joulu (a Christmas Day or Eve with snow) · de weiße Weihnachten (a Christmas Day or Eve with snow)